DEVILDRIVER‘s Dez Fafara has called out Bruce Dickinson for berating fans for smoking weed during an IRON MAIDEN concert.

At MAIDEN‘s September 21 show at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, the 64-year-old Dickinson took a few minutes to excoriate a handful of people who were allegedly smoking weed right in front of him and his bandmates while they were playing.

“I don’t know what it is,” the singer told the crowd, as seen in a viral video on YouTube. “There’s so many fucking people smoking so much fucking dope down here, I’m amazed you can even see. Poor old Steve (Harris, MAIDEN bassist). I don’t know if you know, but he absolutely fucking hates marijuana and the smell of it, all right? So when he’s trying to play bass, it fucks him up. It fucks me up. I’m a singer, all right? So duh.

“I would just ask for a tiny bit of respect,” he added. “If you want to go get completely stoned out of your fucking mind, go out the back and do it. All right? Otherwise you’re going to end up like this fucking knucklehead here going ‘uhhhh.'”

A week later, at MAIDEN‘s concert at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington, Dickinson similarly blasted the pot-smoking fans in the audience, saying: “The smell of the crowd. Oh, I love the smell of sweaty human fucking bodies. It’s the weird shit that you smoke that fucks me up. And the bass player. We fucking hate it. Please, if you’re gonna go get fucking wrecked, fucking wreck yourself out the back and then come back, all right? ‘Cause we are having a fucking great time up here and I wanna enjoy every minute of it. I don’t wanna do (adopts stoner drawl), ‘Where the fuck am I, dude?'”

This is not the first time Bruce has called out fans for smoking marijuana at MAIDEN‘s concerts. Back in 2008, Dickinson shouted at a pot smoker in the crowd, saying: “Would you please put that fucking shit out?” Bruce then identified the person in the crowd and added “I really hate the stink of that,” explaining that “My lungs are trying to work up here, dude.”

This past Monday (October 24),Fafara took to his Twitter to share a Metal Hammer article about Dickinson‘s comments, and he included the following message: “It’s a concert bro people smoke weed”. This prompted one person to respond: “True. But not everyone smokes, nor does everyone like the smell so I see where Bruce is coming from as well.”

Earlier today, Dez returned to Twitter to elaborate on his position, writing: “When he’s in that concert hall he thinks it’s his but it’s not it’s the peoples those who bought tickets house not the bands house I’ve had this argument for years with bands bro your in their town in their house your just a fucking guest #smokeweed”.